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George T. Lynn, M.A.,
M.P.A., L.M.H.C. Psychotherapy for
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Survival
Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder: Innovative parenting and
counseling techniques for helping children with bipolar disorder and the
conditions that may occur with it
******* “A Brilliant and Useful Book on a Most Urgent and Dramatic Topic” Thom Hartmann In the
follow-up to Survival Strategies for Parenting Your ADD Child. George Lynn
provides a practical vision of change for children diagnosed with Bipolar
Disorder and the conditions often found with it: Tourette Syndrome, Asperger’s
Syndrome, and Attention Deficit Disorder. Survival Strategies for Parenting Children With Bipolar Disorder talks heart-to-heart with parents about their
experience raising a child with the wild, fiery, creative, and sometimes
self-destructive spirit of the child with Bipolar Disorder. And it shows what early onset Bipolar Disorder (the kind
that afflicts younger children) has in common with other conditions. Highlights Ø
Provides a Checklist of Bipolar Disorder for Children
and Teens for assessing for the presence of Bipolar Disorder in
children and teens. Ø
Includes survival strategies for dealing with Bipolar
Disorder when a child also shows features of Asperger's Syndrome, Tourette Syndrome, and ADD. Ø
Provides practical guidelines
for managing the wild rage
seen in children with Bipolar Disorder. There is no book in print which addresses this topic in such depth. Ø
Uses the device of archetypes to expand the vision of
parents and therapists on the gifts and challenges of kids with wild and
extreme behavior: If ADD children are "Hunters," Bipolar children
occupy the "Warrior" archetype, and children with Asperger’s occupy
the "Wise Hermit." Ø
Discusses the issues of misdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder as ADHD, and describes how
misdiagnosis may make the situation worse. Ø
Provides new strategies for dealing with more
severe issues such as the lack of empathy and extreme impulsivity which is
seen in many kids with bipolar challenges. ( 425 454-1787 Fax 425 653-1644 |
